The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

posing to tax bachelors for the benefit of the
| schools.
A FEMININE TERMINATION for usher will soon
be wanted. as a Louisville (Ky) theatrical man.
ager contemplates employing young women In
| that capacity.
For the first ten months Of the year the pas
sengers who arrived at San Francisco by rail
| numbered sc, 105; by sea, 81. 722 Of these about
| 10000 remained in California.
CHICO, CAL, is anxious that her Chinese resi-
dents locate beyond the town limits and, with
that end in view has offered them free ground
and water and 10000 feet of lumber
IT IS SAID that the first campaign badge for
1888 is out in Maine. 1t is a pasteboard card
bearing in big letters the words. ''Blaine-lSSS."
MIR. Blaine's friends wear them inside their hats.
| MISS MARY L. SEYMOUR who has type
writing and stenographic establishment in New
York, says that women make better type
writers than men and quite as good Stenog-
| raphers.
EIGHTY CoRN-cANNING FACTORIES have been in
| operation this year in Maine and over 100000
cans of sweet corn have been put up besides
large quantities of apples. beans, tomatoes and
| other vegetables and fruits.
| THE Santa Cruz Surf tells of an ammense sea
turtle which was caught near Capitoa the other
| day. 1t measured feet from the tip of its nose
to the tip of its tail, and its weight is guessed
| by local guesser to be about 200 pounds.
N. G. YocUM, of Pasadena, Cal, wealthy
young man, suddenly disappeared two months
| ago. 1t has been ascertained that he is insane
and believing that he is very poor he has been
working in shingle mill in the interior OF the
| State.
BELMONT COUNTY, ONO farmer rejoices in
heterogeneous collection of freaks consisting of
| pig whosee feet are split so as to give it. the
| appearance of having toes, another with three
| ears, cat with one ear growing wrong size
| out, and boy with three thumbs.
THE Santa Rosa Republican tells of an in
dulgent mother in that town whose 14-year-old
son is confined in the county Jail, and who sent
him Bible, bunch of cigarettes, a piece of
| bologna sausage, and copy of the Police ca
| zette, in order to hew off the ragged edges of
| prison life.
| VETERAN of 1s49 who lately died in Califor
MIA, passed the latter years of his life in a room
over stable but he left, in addition to two
| brothers, 81, 600 600 to keep them from the ne
\ ceSsity of boarding around among horses I'M
| less, as was the case with him, they should pre-
| fer to do SO.
| AN ELK, pronounced one of the last of the
| immense herds which roamed the plains of Cen
I trail and Southern California thirty-five years
| ago, recently killed by professional hunter
on ranch near Sumner, Kern county. 1t
weighed 800 pounds and had a pair of magnifi-
cent anterS.
The EXHIBITION of some human heads taken
| from Indian graves in Ecuador, enlivened the
| proceedings at recent meeting of the San
Francisco Academy of Sciences. BY finished
method of Scalping, these heads had been re
duced to the size of moderately large orange,
| although the features were still visible
CHILD was recently born on Staten Island,
| N. Y, whose mouth ran at right angles to the
! place where the mouth should be- The lips were
perfectly formed and the upper end of the mouth
| split the nose between the nostrls. A surgical
| operation was recently performed, the child is
doing well, and it is believed that it will be but
| slightly distigured.
| THE Southern California Motor Road Company
will run road up to the Bear valley reservoir,
which is 5000 feet above the sea and where snow
| falls and Ice forms in winter Skating parties
| are to be taken up trains running moonlight
| nights only. They will leave San Bernardino at
| 6 p. m, making the run in two hours, and after
/ three hours of sport, start on the return at II
| o'clock.
| THE dynamic value of one pound of good
steam coal has been estimated by Prof W. D.
Rogers as equivalent to the work of one man
one day. while three tons would represent his
work for twenty years, counting 300 working
| days in year. He has further estimated that
| four-foot seam would yield one ton of good coal
| to the square yard, and that one square mile in
area would represent the labor of over 1000 900
| men for twenty years.
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who presents parallel case to that of the cele-
brated Laura Bridgeman. His name is Reuben
Ainsley He is IS years of age, has been blind
deaf and dumb from infancy, and when brought
to the institution from Mackinaw three wears
ago was considered entirely unslIsceDtible of in
Struction. However glove was provided which
could be supplied with raised letters, and the
work OF enlightenment began. Progress was
! dscouragingly slow at first, but continued
efforts were rewarded and the lad has attained
| a great degree of intelligence,
ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS will watch with inter
est and perhaps alarm the new missionary
movement in Germany. Socalled advanced
theologians have well-oganized society,"
whose object is to make use of the elements of
culture and morality that found in educated
heather nations, and this basis build up a
Christian culture according to advanced IDEAS
This society thinks that the old methods fail in
that they do not interest the thinkers among
educated non-Christian people. 1t has 1880
members in Switzerland and Germany and has
few men at work in Japan and China.
THE war cloak of the royal family of Honolu-
lu is complete semicrcle made on a founda-
ton of network woven of the fibre of a tree
The features are sewed in with Irvine made of
the same material. II is soft and even as plush
OF beautiful golden orange, shading to silver
gray. The feathers were taken from the 90
But two feathers are used from each bird. 1t is
said to have been generations in making the
feathers and work costing over 1000, 900 The
feathers were paid for in pieces of nankeen, four
feathers for piece valued at $3.50 AS the
feathers are not over two inches long some idea
may be formed of the number required for
a garment of this size. When Kaakaua was
crowned in 1888 he wore this robe for his coro-
nation, making the ninth king who has been SO
adorned.
THERE is story that is going around in the
French papers about the Gar. While he was
stopping recently in the Castle of Fredensburg.
he was fond of taking little walks in the neigh
borhood. One day he was accosted by beggar
woman with a child in her arms. In pure Dan
iSh aud in the toughest manner possible he
told her to go away, and to be pretty quick
about it, Tne poor woman, terrified, started off
but was followed by an officer. Here my good
woman, said the officer as he put some pieces
of gold into her hand, lit is the Car who sends
you this, and he hopes you will forgive his ap-
parent r1deneSs of a moment ago. The fact Is
he has just returned from visit to his children
who have the scaretna, and he was afraid that
he might bring the contagion to your child if
he allowed you to approach his person.
LORD WoLsELEY has been recently lecturng
his people about the various deficiencies in a
branch of the English government in which he
has peculiarly thorough means Of information
the military, He says the engineering imple- |
ments, etc, are simply worthless, as thew |
have been not ohly for years, but for genera |
tons, the axes, for instance, being so softrthat
they are chopped by the timber instead of chon. |
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